Daily Republican., 1887-06-28
A NEW xonK TRAGEDY.
Two Lovers Found with Their Throats
ouf' ana Each Accuses the Other OF
the Crime.

the Crime.
| NEW YORK. June 81 -Adelber,
brauniok and Maggie McGovern were
saken to Bellevue Hospital, from 66e
Third avenue, at 4 O'Clock this m oYn inp
with their throats cut. Braunick is q
conductor on Fourth avenue car. He
boards with Mr.. and Mrs. Esmopd In @
nat ct 669 Third avenue. Maggie Nc.
Govern is Mrs. EsDond's half sieter
and lives at Fishkill. Adelbert and
maggie nave been engaged for some
time, and were to have been married In
August. Maggie has been visiting the
Esnaonds for few days and occupy I'M
chamber adjoining Braunick's room,
This morning Braunick pounded on
Esmond's door and cried: "Magsie hsa
cut me with som athing"
Going to Brauuick's room Mr. rs
! mond found the young man sitting on
the edge OF the bed, bleeding from two
ugly wounds In the neck Sect q doc
tor; Maggie has cut ms p again cried
Braunick, and then rolled over on his
bed in a faint.
MIRA Esnond went into the front bed
room off the parlor and there she
fouDd Maggie McGovern bleod ing from
wourts similar to B,aunick's. "Dell
has cut me-" was all TIE wounded
woman would say.
Braunlok and Maggie hnTs been en-.
gagged for nearly year They were 70
have been married in January last. At
that time BTaunick was in the employ
'of the Hudson River Railroad Com
pany, but was not earning enough to
support wife, 30 the marriage vas put
Oh. Maggie went to live with lanily
In Fisbkill and BraInick got q car on
the Fourth avenue line, his hours being
nom D p. IN. to Il. IN. Or Saturday
Maggie came down from Fishkill 10
spend Sunday with her sister sna
Braunick. Mrs. Esmcn6 and CHE passed
the day at Glen Island with Brgunick,
and returned In time for him TO take
his car as usual.
just what led to the throat cutting,
however, Is matter OF oonjeotura
Maggie say3 BrannicE attacked her and
Braunick says the girl attacked him
Some believe Il was o double case OF
attempted suicide by mutual agree
NEST. The appearance of Brauuick's
bedroom, however, would indicate that
he wa5 attacked, as he declares, In his
own room. He came In at about 4
O'Clock, he says, and was Just going to
sleep when Maggie sprang at him and
Grew the edge OF razor acrus, his
throat. In grsppling with her she cut
her own throat. Msggie's story Is that
Sraunick cut her throat frst and then
cut bis own. The mans injuries are the
more dangerous. The razor with which
the deed WAS done was found in the
hallway covered with blood. 1t be
longed TO Braunick, who always kept
1t locked In closet In his room to which
|only he and Mrs. Esmoud had o key.
Though both aro prisoners, charged
with fsl9ntous assault, the conviction Is
growing on the part Of the police thar
the girl was the vould be murderees
end he her victim. 1t appears that
Braun'ck Is q Protestant, while the
girl is Catholic. She Insisted that he
should adopt her faith, and this caused
more than one quarrel. She fnblly
consented to take him as ne was, but
his love seems to have bean c1oled by
her course, and they had last parted in
anger just before he retired Tires
hours later he was awakened, he says,
by a sharp pain in his throat, and
found Maggie standing over him with
the racer.
Down In ward No tho girl lay be-
mind Iron bars. She started to tell the
reporter her story.
He came In In the darkness," she
said. II WAS asleep I woke up and
cried 'Adelbert is that you? Then he
cut" Here the girl broke of into a
sudden shriek. and went into hysteri.
cal fit.